In his statement to the leaders of Hamas and Fattah gathering in Cairo, MB Chairman Mohamed Mahdi Akef urged to reach an agreement that would end hostilities and achieve stability

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has vehemently rejected Hamas demands that only Palestinian and Egyptian authorities be allowed to run the Rafah border crossing.

International awareness advocacy organization Aveez.org has called on the international community to sign a petition against what they call the "siege of Gaza." The group, which advocates for better understanding

A while back I remarked that "I’m not sure there’s very much the US government can or should do, in practice, to push Egypt into becoming a democracy." In response

A leading Israeli rabbi has called for ethnic cleansing of millions of Palestinians who have been living in Palestine from time immemorial. The rabbi, Yona Metzger, who hold the official

enior Hamas political leader and member of the Movement’s political bureau Sami Khater affirmed on Monday that the crossing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian citizens into Egypt was popular

PA caretaker premier Ismail Haneyya has affirmed that the Gaza crossings should all be opened the soonest and the siege should come to an immediate end.

A stream of dark and putrid sludge snakes through Gaza’s streets. It is a noxious mix of human and animal waste. The stench is overwhelming. The occasional passer-by vomits.

Forty-five percent of Americans would not want a Muslim president, according to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in August 2007.

It is important to recognize that the progressive erosion of the prohibition of usury in the Judaeo-Christian tradition was by no means a simple case of moral weakness or intellectual